Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-08-03
DAKOTA NEWS.


Abercromb,e.
A Methodist camp meeting was held
at Gary recently.
The largest crop of Barley ever known
is reported at Bathgate.
The Northwestern Dental association
met at Fargo recently.
The Daily Huronitc has been en-
larged to six column fol o.
Work on the street railway Of Sioux
Falls will soon commence.
The depot at Castlewood was struck
by lightning and burned down.
For the first time since 1879 the West
Vermillion river has censed TO flow.
Burglars again made three nocturnal
visits at Sioux Falls tho other night.
-Oakes, now that the Minneapolis and
Pacific is assured, is hay NJ boom.
A Webster special says wheat there
will average thirty bushels to the acre.
The Central Dakota immigration
Company is getting to work in earnest.
Gov. Church is receiving contributions
for the New Yori Star Grant monument
fund.
The Farmers alliance Of Dakota now
has membership of between $4,000 and
10000.
The executive board of the Farmers
lately.
Gen. Tyner, of Fargo, will resign as
member of the civil service commission of
North Dakota.
Twenty miles of trees were
planted this spring along the public high
ways in six townships Of Beadle county.
The Congregational association form
ally accepted the offer of Fargo. Work
will soon commence on college buildings.
Over $500 cattle have crossed the river
at Pierre within the past SIX weeks. All
east.
Commissioner Mcclure estimates
from land office reports gain of $500 in
population during June, or 200 during
the year.
e. b. Wales, the landlord of the Prior
house at Frederick. has skipped 10 the
sorrow of the merchants of that place and
his hired help.
The Academy of the Sacred Heart has
been incorporated at Aberdeen, with Father
Haire and the Catholic sisters the prnci-
pal jncorporators.
Prof. Edward Olson, for long time
connected with the university of Chicago,
will take charge of the Dakota university
at Vermill on as president.
A lantern hanging in the barn of John
Crest, near Leonard, exploded burning
his new barn and n'ne horses just i'm
ported, wor Ii about $3.50 each.
Fargo was visited by severe electrical
and windstorm. Telegraph poles were
blown down and the large foundry of the
Standard Oil company demolished.
Elkton has been named the Gate City
of Dakota, since it is the first town in the
Territory one enters in coming over the
Dakota Genital or on the Rock Island.
Tie cur property of Sioux Falls
is valued at 500, 100; its school property,
which includes two denominational col
leges AMI deaf mute school at $2O7,5O0.
The residence at Fargo of Gen. Allen,
grand commander of the G. A. r. Of Da
kota, was struck by lightning and set on
fire, hut extinguished by the fire depart
ment.
AT a charivari at Clear Lake at the
house of Mr.. Steenburger the other night
Henry Tickroney was accidentally shot
through the left hand, tearing it badly and
breaking the bones.
The jury at Webster, in the case of
William M. Evans, ex-treasurer OF Grant
county, returned verdict of not guilty
after being out about twenty minutes.
The verdict meets the appreciation of the
entire community.
Rev. Mr.. Holt, of Sioux Falls, wants
a new church. He is the pastor OF the
Congregational society, but said he was
not sectarian since he could mite in build
ing large church with the Bapists, Pres
byterians, Methodists or Free Baptists.
Hon. c. G. Williams, ut tho meeting
of divis onists at Huron the other day. in
an enthusiastic speech intimated that il
wouldn't do for the government of the
United States to trifs with Dakota much
longer or she might repeat that Boston
harbor tea act of revolutionary fame.
The decision of Judge Spencer in de-
nying the injunction restraining the re.
moval OF the county records from Colum
Liza to Aberdeen, does not decide the valid
ity of the law by which the election was
submitted. 1t is thought that Columbia,
however, will not proceed further in the
courts.
The board Of trustees of Highmore re-
ceived telegram from the Empire Artesian
Well Company that the contract forwarded
to them was accepted and signed by them.
This closes the contract, for the board at
Hig'more signed it before Transmitting it.
The well will Be begun on or before Sep
tember l. Highmore will then have two
arteslan wells.
In the Brown county seat case, in
which Columbia seeks to prove that the
law of the last Legislature submitting the
vote and contrary TO the law passed ly the
last congress prohibiting special legislation
in the Territory, that town mas employed
an array OF eminent attorneys, among
them Senator C. X. Davis, of Minnesota,
while Aberdeen has employed only resi-
dent attorneys.
The members OF the Dakota board of
railroad commissioners have held series
of meetings in Minneapolis and st. Paul.
At the meetings in Minneapolis the eleva-
tor men agreed to take out q license, give
bonds and comply with oil the provisions
of the grain and warehouse law passed at
the last session OF the Dakota legislature.
1t is believed that this agreement will re-
suit in great benefit to the agriculturalists
of Dakota. Tho board was compelled to